Monday, August 24, 2009

Sketchbook Studies:Obstetric Fistula

Inspired after reading about it in the New York Times Sunday Magazine

Two to three million suffer with untreated fistula.
Why!
"The root causes of fistula are grinding poverty and the low status of women and girls"

"The Economist magazine recently estimated that 80% of the fistula cases in the Congo were the result of sexual violence."

To learn more visit the Fistula Foundation
Campaign to End Fistula

The indignity of it leaves me speechless.